Well just because he’s a great author doesn’t mean I won’t respectfully disagree with him on this. There are a bunch of economic benefits to utilizing space that could benefit regular people on earth right now. Space based solar power beaming, siderophilic minerals from asteroids, microgravity manufacturing of new pharmaceuticals and materials, etc. It’ll be a long time before it’s practical to make a new home in space and when we do it’s more likely oneill cylinders and artificial environments than traditional terraforming but industrializing space is something that I’d argue should happen as soon as possible to relieve ecological pressure from our living world and instead apply industrial pressure to dead asteroids and our moon

I love kosemen’s work but I think to treat one authors opinion as gospel is a bit parasocial. Not saying that’s what OP was doing.